Alice Roth, Ltc. Ret. USA- died in her sleep on her 98th birthday (28 July 2016).She was our chief nurse 1967-68.

In Memory Of Dr James Robert "Bob" Benson was a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army.
He was selected by Lt. General Leonard Heaton,
the Surgeon General of the Army to be the Commanding Officer of the 45th Surgical Hospital in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
from October 1967 to July 1968.

Published on Jan 29, 2013
Secure Messaging gives Veterans a safe and convenient way to communicate online with their VA health care providers.With Secure Messaging, Veterans all messages stay inside the My HealtheVet system and don't travel across the internet.Rest assured that this is a safe, secure, web-based service that allows Veterans to communicate non-urgent, non-emergency health-related information with their VA health care teams between visits. For emergencies, always dial 911.

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In Memory of My oldest brother, Warren C. Norwood, in the 45th MUST

From David Norwood

100th ANNIVERSARY

1914 – 1918

Help commemorate 100 years since the Great War started. The National World War I Museum and Fold3 have collaborated to help the nation preserve and remember the courage, honor, sacrifice and valiant efforts that led to the end of the world's first global conflict.

Currently 3249 Homeless Shelters and Social Services.There should be one near you!

In the 70's the U.S. Army use to have a project called Transition, from military life to civilian life, then they ran out of funds!Homeless Veterans: Stand DownSome veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan into the recession are finding themselves homeless. Scott Pelley reports on an annual encampment in San Diego where veterans can find hope, help and services.

Disability Benefits For Wounded Warriors
Military service members can receive expedited processing of disability claims from Social Security. Benefits available through Social Security are different than those from the Department of Veterans Affairs and require a separate application.

The expedited process is used for military service members who become disabled while on active military service on or after October 1, 2001, regardless of where the disability occurs.Benefits available through Social Security

Disability Benefits For Wounded Warriors
Military service members can receive expedited processing of disability claims from Social Security. Benefits available through Social Security are different than those from the Department of Veterans Affairs and require a separate application.

The expedited process is used for military service members who become disabled while on active military service on or after October 1, 2001, regardless of where the disability occurs.Benefits available through Social Security

Veterans Affairs and require a separate application.Have you recently returned from military service? If you've served, you've earned benefits. Now is the time to take advantage of the benefits VA offers OEF/OIF Veterans. Please do so NOW!Don't Wait Until It Is Too Late, Like I Did!

We Did Not Loose The War In Vietnam Like Everyone Keeps Telling Us!

Richard Nixon-Address to the Nation on an Agreement to End the War in Vietnam (January 23, 1973)

The Truth about the Vietnam War

Published on Jun 23, 2014
Did the United States win or lose the Vietnam War? We are taught that it was a resounding loss for America, one that proves that intervening in the affairs of other nations is usually misguided. The truth is that our military won the war, but our politicians lost it. The Communists in North Vietnam actually signed a peace treaty, effectively surrendering. But the U.S. Congress didn't hold up its end of the bargain. In just five minutes, learn the truth about who really lost the Vietnam War.

Indochina war

Special Request:I took this picture in summer of 1972. It was taken at DaNang AB, Vietnam.
We all were bomb loaders on F-4's.
I would ask that everyone will share this so I can see if I can make contact. — with Ken Smelter.
ORKen Benner

Published on Mar 1, 2014
"Welcome Home" is a new series being produced by Sleeping Dog Productions, Inc.
It tells the story of Viet Nam Veterans, from all branches of the service. It is scheduled for release in 2015, the 40th anniversary year of the end of the War. It is a thank you -- and a welcome home that is long, long, overdue.

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The unemployment news and headlines stand as daily reminders of one of the economy’s greatest challenge.
And yet one group of Americans are unemployed today at a rate three times that of the national average.
Who are they? Ex-cons? High School Dropouts? Heroin Addicts?
Guess again – they are men and women, honorably discharged, from The US Armed Forces.
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Uploaded on Dec 19, 2011
1985: DCTV returns to the war-torn land to locate many of the subjects they filmed eight years before, just after the fall of Saigon. The resulting film, Vietnam: Talking to the People, offers a penetrating view of a country deeply embedded in the American consciousness, and the picture that emerges is one of determination, hardship, humor and resiliency.

From a look at Vietnam's failing birth control program to a journey through the Mekong Delta, from drunken weddings to slow-moving funerals, from pepper pickers to orphans, the film traverses the vast landscape of Vietnam. Highlights include the first entry into an operational Vietnamese prison camp, sealed off from foreign observers for 10 years, as well as an examination of the Orderly Departure Program, in which American officials interview and process the applications of thousands of Vietnamese awaiting visas to the U.S.

Uploaded on May 30, 2009
The Montagnards or Degar People were loyal allies to the US during the Vietnam War. After taking over South Vietnam the communists implemented a brutal revenge against the indigenous Montagnards.Since 1975 Hanoi has waged ethnic cleansing against their indigenous peoples.

Verse 26: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Verse 27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Uploaded by UCtelevision on Sep 11, 2008
Quang X. Pham is the author of the memoir, A Sense Of Duty: My Father, My American Journey. Through events in his fathers life and his own experiences as a refugee, and later U.S. Marine, he explores the relationship of America and Vietnam and the lasting effects of that war.From the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life at UC Santa Barbara. Series: Walter H. Capps Center Series

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Courtesy of J. Robert Benson, COL.1965 by the Garrett Corporation.

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This pamphlet is published to assist commanders and personnel
officers in determining or establishing the eligibility of individual
members for campaign participation credit, assault landing credit,
and unit citation badges awarded during the Vietnam Conflict, the
Grenada Operation, and the period of service subsequent to the
Vietnam Conflict up to September 1987. Additional unit awards are
included for meritorious achievement in the continental United
States (CONUS) and other foreign countries.

If you find that your unit citations were updated, get the VA to get you a new Updated DD-214 FORM.

187th Helicopter Assault Company Crusaders (Rat-Pack)

The 187th was next to the 45th on Tay Ninh Base Camp on the North side of us. We had Friends in the 187th and when they were hurting we were hurting.I had a friend that got kidney problems so they shipped him back to the states, I never saw him again.

I may have been the Cobra pilot in 69 that scared you to death by the rubber trees ,those 2.75 rockets made a big bang.I was Ratpack 5 flying with the 187th.Enjoyed the pics....
Sincerely Dr. Rod

A short Reply from the WebMaster:
Alfred and Barnie (where ever he is), Thank you for Your Fire Support During that Fire Fight, and the Rush of Adrenaline...OH WHAT A RUSH !
Five Rockets heading toward your truck, on the way to the tree line 50 feet away, scared to death is an under statement.
Then we heard your Cobra Helicopter after the Rocket Fire, Our Lives Flashed before our eyes and then some.
But without that Fire Support we may not be here today,Thanks Again, Ratpack 5, Dr.Rod, 187th AHC.

I remember when we first got there, David E. Barnwell and Alfred L. Peterson, that's me, we had to learn fast on how to act.

When we had incoming rockets and mortars, in 1968 they were chinese made 107mm and 122mm rockets, some recoiless rifle hits, you can't hear those coming.
None of this was taught to us in basic training, orAdvanced Individual Training (AIT).
Any way we learned that if you here a low pitch hum, hit it, the ground and lay flat as possible, then when you do not here anymore for a while, low crawl to the nearest bunker, never stand up cause it can get you killed.
Never stand in any place more than 3-4 minutes, due to snippers around the perimeter of the base camp.
When the planes landed and took off from Tay Ninh base camp, the aircraft were flown at a high angle, to keep from getting shotdown by small arms fire.

To give you an example of how jumpy a person got after a year of that. When my father picked me up at LAX, we were going down the freeway at 70 miles per hour, and I was checking every nook and cranny on both sides of the road, for snippers, convoy speed was 35-45 mph, I gave myself a head ache so I put my hands over my eyes, and my head down, when my father asked me what was wrong I said I just had a head ache. Later that day, after being awake for 72+ hours I finally got to sleep, my step mother & father were at work, when the down pitch of a police car siren sounded like an incomming rocket.
I was on the floor low crawling toward the bathroom, then I looked around me and realized where I was, and I was glad no one was there to see me.

There are alot of things that we keep to our selves because no one would understand, you had to be there, and experience what happened to really understand what another person is talking about who has been there.
When I got home to Miami Florida, I got my uncle to buy me 3 cases of Bud, sat in an easy chair staring out the front window for another 72 hours (3 days 24 hours a day), still sober, just listening to the new sounds of the hood.
Trying to adapt to my new surroundings, the people walking down the street must have thought I was nuts!
After my second tour in Vietnam, I found I could adapt better faster to my surroundings!
When I got out of the Army, I got married, we went shopping in a crowded store, I broke out in a cold sweat, cause people were bumping into me, and I could not see what they were doing with their hands.
So I told my new wife I'll wait in the car and I let her finish the shopping! I felt bad cause I could not explain why I felt that way!
In Vietnam when you go from the base camp to the village, you have to watch what people around you are doing with their hands, cause they might have a grenade!

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Missing Personnel We would like to get Intouch:

Rex B. Wimmer Ambulance Medic:Rex came to Viet Nam after I had Been there for about 8 months.He use to go down to the perimeter during a firefight and pick up wounded, in a 3/4 ton tacticalambulance, with a big white background and redcross on the sides of it, as if to say to charlieshoot at me....You see we did not have camouflauge trucks....IF Anybody knows Rex's E-mail send it to Alfred L. Peterson Thanks...

Now our X-ray Tech's nick name was Moose

One Night when we had wounded comming in on the helopad. He and Cpt. Pederson where going throughthe sachels of grenades taken off of the wounded.You see they use to put the grenades in the sachelswithout the pins in them, so all they had to dowas grab and through them. Well Moose, grabbed a grenade that the Cpt. got out, because the spoon started to flip, and he tucked it toward his stomachand ran away toward the helopad, to put a pin in it.The Hospital Commander heard about it, and putMoose in for a Bronze Star, But he Never Got it.We Figured all those guys with the Generals inLong Bien Got Them all, At least that's what wethought...at the time.